From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Tue Apr 1 23:38:26 2008 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Wednesday, April 2 2008 Volume 01 : Number 2710 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: [db] administrivia: notes on using this list Re: [db] gout of black smoke? Re: [db] gout of black smoke? Re: [db] gout of black smoke? Re: [db] gout of black smoke? Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:45:01 +0000 From: Richard Welty Subject: [db] administrivia: notes on using this list Digest.Net mailing list "Meta FAQ" These general notes on using Digest.Net mailing lists are posted on the 1st and 15th of each month. This file may be found on the web at http://www.digest.net/general-notes.txt [last revised 5/1/02; removed list of spam strings, as i'm not the only one filtering on them -- rpw] Additional information on Digest.Net's spam policies may be found at http://www.digest.net/email-policy.html and http://www.digest.net/blocked.html Table of Contents 1. Why don't my postings go through? 2. Why can't I unsubscribe? 3. How do I post to the list? 4. Where are the archives? 5. What other lists are on digest.net? 6. Is there a web subscription form? 7. Why not move the lists to someplace like (egroups, topica,...)? 8. How do I contact the server adminstrator in an emergency? 9. What is Krusty Motorsports, anyway? The Meta-FAQ 1. Why don't my postings go through? There are several things that may interfere with postings making it to the list. a) Are you a member? Some read the ftp archives rather than receiving the list in email. Persons who read the list via email are automatically members, but readers of the FTP archive are not, and need to contact me (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com) and get your name added to the list of "permitted senders". b) has your email address changed? some of you have had changes in your email address. your old address still works, and is still on the list, but your From: line shows a new address. this can happen for various reasons; you may have changed jobs or ISPs, and left a forward in place, or your IT staff may have fiddled with the email system. you will need to unsubscribe your old email address and subscribe the new one. this may require my involvement, if you can't figure out a way to get your old address off the list using the conventional majordomo commands. you can use the majordomo "which" command to probe for old addresses. send a message to majordomo-at-digest.net with one or more which commands in the body, one per line. to check for potential addresses for Fred Flinstone, formerly of bedrock.org, the following commands can be sent: which flintstone which bedrock note that the matches above might return any of the following addresses, if they appear in the list (in other words, you can use vagueness and incompleteness in your recollection as a tool): Fred.Flinstone-at-bedrock.org fflinstone-at-wilma.bedrock.org flintstonef-at-bedrock.com c) do you have more than one email address? if so, only the subscribed addresses can post, unless you contact me (see 1.a) above for relevant information) d) are you using (intentionally or accidentially) special "features" of your mail client? [this section is no longer operative, as the demime software now strips html, attachments, rich text format, etc. from postings automatically.] e) are your posts too large? there is a 10,000 character limit on posting sizes; this is done for various reasons. you can always split up large postings to get mail through. f) are you including majordomo commands at the start of your message? administrivia control is turned on; this is a trap for things like "unsubscribe" at the start of a message. try to avoid obvious majordomo commands in the subject and the first 10 lines, or misspell them in obvious ways (e.g. unzubscribe, 1ndex, h3lp, g3t, etc.) g) are you triggering spam traps? some things are red flags; for example, many phrases found commonly in spam are automatically blocked. h) are you using "funky" character sets? 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I am monitoring the logs on the server, and when I see TLS related problems, I manually place the problem destinations on a special exception list; however, this may delay email to the destination host until I make the exception. 2. Why can't I unsubscribe? a) are you using the right address? send to majordomo-at-digest.net, and the command format is unsubscribe list-name my-email-address b) has your email address changed? majordomo has no way of knowing that Fred.Flinstone-at-BarneyCo.com was once fflintstone-at-bedrock.org. you can check this with the which command (see 1.b) above for details) 3. How do I post to the list? You may use either one of two addresses: for example, the bmw-digest may be reached using either bmw-at-digest.net or bmw-digest-at-digest.net If you are using the correct addresses and your posts don't show up, check out the stuff in 1. above. 4. Where are the archives? see ftp://ftp.digest.net/ for digest archives. the web archives have proven problematic, and are awaiting time for a systematic attack on the problems they've been having. 5. What other lists are on digest.net? see http://www.digest.net/ for more information. 6. Is there a web subscription form? Yes, recently added. go to http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi 7. Why not move the lists to someplace like (egroups, topica,...)? The Krusty Motorsports server (aka, digest.net) was explicitly to provide for efficient management of the various automotive mailing lists, done the way that the owner of the server wanted it done. Any migration off of the server (which is already bought, paid for, and configured) would create any number of issues. 8. How do i contact the Server Administrator in an emergency? If my regular email address (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com) isn't working for you, you can fall back on rwelty-at-suespammers.org 9. What is Krusty Motorsports, anyway? Krusty Motorsports (http:/www.krusty-motorsports.com/) is a business which is owned and operated by Richard Welty (rwelty-at-krusty-motorsports.com). Krusty is an S-Corporation in the State of New York. Krusty provides a number of Internet related services, such as mailing list, web sites, pop3/telnet accounts, and consulting on internet related issues. For more information, see the web site. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:57:29 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: Re: [db] gout of black smoke? you could probably borrow the tester... pull the glow plugs to do the test... I have a remote starter... talk to jim, it might be better if he did the test if you're not sure, shouldn't take more than an hour of labor to do. I should drive your 300d and you should drive mine to see if there is a difference... I'm running mostly bioDiesel right now, this last batch is pretty good... shadowfax seems perkier... mileage is up too... last tank in town 29mpg... that's with the hammer down from stoplights, and there is a fair whack of them between here and work. :) after driving my WJ down to Seattle Sunday afternoon, we got home and hopped in the 300D... my 300D felt much better... of course the WJ would make it's taillights a distant memory side by side... btw, my wj got about 16 mpg towing a 2,000 lb trailer with buckets and barrels in it up to Mt. Vernon... kept the speed under 70 because I didn't like the idea of being in the news if one of those barrels got airborne. :) coming back one did start to rise up a bit... pulled over right before the big hill heading south and threw a strap over it... that would have been very bad... so what time were you out on I-5 terrorizing folks? :) glad I missed the smoke show... ;) ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Bruce Caruthers wrote: # Yeah. My 240D was clocked at 97mph across the San Mateo # bridge back in 1994. Don't think it could quite manage that # anymore, although it has been getting peppier again in recent # years. (You may recall me posting about it seeming to cough # up a hairball a few times shortly after I met this list, # followed by being a lot perkier.) On the other hand, it only # turned in a disappointing 21mpg from my Bellingham roundtrip. # (Minimal local driving.) # # I actually feel more satisfied as a driver in my 240D than in # my 300D. The 300D always feels a bit "heavy" (in the sluggish # sense) in its acceleration... The turbo on the 300D definitely # helps on big hills, but on lesser hills, it feels like the 240D # is better (accelerates faster and pushes me back in my seat # more with torque). For example, the hill on I-5 North where # 405 and 5 join/split in the south is a slow hill for the 300D # (has trouble doing 65) whereas the 240D hits 75 there, uphill, # easy, and feels like it wants to go more. # # How much does a compression test cost? And what's that # adjustment to change the balance between efficiency and power? # (Although, with the price of fuel as it is nowadays, I guess I # should be glad my 300D is set more towards the efficiency side.) # # My 240D did idle much more smoothly when I got to Bellingham, # but I thought it was just because it was well warmed up. # Haven't driven since then (taking the bus to school) so can't # yet say if it continues to idle more smoothly. # # And I always made sure there was someone going just a little # bit faster near me. :) :) # # -bkc # Lynnwood, WA # (his) '76 MB 240D [W115.117/616.916] # (hers) '92 Toyota Celica GT # (ours) '93 MB 300D 2.5 Turbo [W124.128/602.962] # # # On Mon Mar 31, 2008, John Meister wrote: # > # > 90? as in mph? # > # > in your 240D? # > # > sounds like it coughed up a hairball... or a lung... ;) # > # > actually sounds like it might have been a good thing, cleaned it out, # > does it idle smooth? if so, it was a good thing. # > # > and it's a good thing "smokey" didn't spot you. :) # > # > john # > # > # > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Bruce Caruthers wrote: # > # > # I took my '76 240D up to Bellingham over the weekend. Made # > # it without any signs of straining on the hills. Made it # > # there in almost exactly an hour from Lynnwood. # > # # > # However, when I hit just over 9mph at one point, I saw a huge # > # gout of black smoke come out the back. No change in sound # > # of motor or feel of the car, nor any change on any of the # > # indicators (oil, idiot lights, etc.). As a matter of fact, # > # the temperature dropped afterwards (it normally runs at the # > # 9 o'clock position in highway use, dropped back down to the # > # 8 o'clock "in town" level [175]) and stayed down. # > # # > # I kept it under 90 the rest of the trip, just in case that # > # was something bad and not just a "clearing the throat" or # > # something. Any ideas? # > # # > # So, sorry Chuck, if a Hummer-sized cloud ended up by you. # > # I was around exit 210, I think. :) # > # # > # -bkc # ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:37:56 -0700 From: chuck goolsbee Subject: Re: [db] gout of black smoke? >So, sorry Chuck, if a Hummer-sized cloud ended up by you. >I was around exit 210, I think. :) FYI: Never, EVER speed near exit 210! The WSP hangs out on the overpass nailing people all day long. Very well-known speed trap. FWIW I don't recall any particularly dark clouds this past weekend... of course I'm a ways east of I-5 and it snowed for 4 days straight over the weekend... except when "Mr. Sunshine" showed up in his Jeep and brought all that sun from down in Snohomish. As soon as he left the snow came back. - -- - --chuck goolsbee 02 Jetta TDi & 06 Liberty CRD arlington, wa, usa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:19:21 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: Re: [db] gout of black smoke? I've been called a lot of things, but "mr sunshine" is a new one. :) my son does complain about my optimistism... a lot... especially when encouraging him in his education attempts... which aren't going extremely well right now... the community college sure doesn't make it easy for someone to get started... really lame... so, chuck, drop on by for some of that liquid sunshine... :) I'm going to take Thursday off to see if I can't get some of that stuff flowing in the Grand Wagoneer. :) john ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, chuck goolsbee wrote: # >So, sorry Chuck, if a Hummer-sized cloud ended up by you. # >I was around exit 210, I think. :) # # FYI: Never, EVER speed near exit 210! The WSP hangs out on the overpass # nailing people all day long. Very well-known speed trap. # # # FWIW I don't recall any particularly dark clouds this past weekend... of # course I'm a ways east of I-5 and it snowed for 4 days straight over the # weekend... except when "Mr. Sunshine" showed up in his Jeep and brought all # that sun from down in Snohomish. As soon as he left the snow came back. # # # ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:30:52 -0700 From: Kevin Subject: Re: [db] gout of black smoke? On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:37:56PM -0700, chuck goolsbee wrote: > >So, sorry Chuck, if a Hummer-sized cloud ended up by you. > >I was around exit 210, I think. :) > > FYI: Never, EVER speed near exit 210! The WSP hangs out on the > overpass nailing people all day long. Very well-known speed trap. This generally isn't a problem in a 240D. This might almost be a cue for Alec to dig out the 240D race post. ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2710 **********************************